Exhausting

/ɪɡˈzɔstɪŋ/

Synonyms for "exhausting" (95 found)

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Closest matches (19)

arduous boring burdensome clearance clearing crippling debilitating detailed devitalizing difficult

Adjective(1 words)

backbreaking

Noun(8 words)

consume consuming consumption demanding deplete depleting depletion drain

Strong matches (29)

drainage draining dull egress elimination emptying enervating enfeebling evacuation excretion exhaustion fatiguesome fatiguing forced grinding grueling hard harsh heavy irksome

Adjective(3 words)

draining energy-depleting gruelling

Noun(4 words)

draining fatigue fatiguing investigate

Verb(2 words)

emaciating frazzling

Related words (47)

killing laborious murderous onerous oppressive overburdensome punishing removal sapping stiff straining strenuous stressful tedious tiresome tiring toilsome trying tyrannous unloading

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voidance weakening weariful wearing wearisome wearying weighty

Noun(13 words)

laboriousmost energy-dissipatingproberesource intensivesevere fatigueslaving survey taxingtime consumingtiredness tiring weariness weary

Adjective(6 words)

mental exhaustionrapid fatiguestrenuous workouttiring wearing wearying

Verb(1 words)

prostrating

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

10 entries

analysis conditiondescriptive adjectiveenergy depletionenergy useexamination processresource depletionstateworkload descriptor

More specific

17 entries

cognitive fatiguecomprehensive surveyemotional fatigueenergy depletionfatigue fatiguingfuel depletionphysical fatigueresource exhaustionresource intensivestock depletionstrainingsystematic reviewthorough investigationtime consumingwater depletion

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Collocations

10 entries

exhausting conditionsexhausting examinationexhausting fieldworkexhausting journeyexhausting processexhausting scheduleexhausting taskexhausting workloadmentally exhaustingphysically exhausting

Inflections

5 entries

exhausted exhaustings exhaustsmore exhaustingmost exhausting

Derivations

6 entries

exhaust exhausted exhaustingly exhaustion exhaustive exhaustively

similar

2 entries

debilitating effortful

Sample sentences

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The swimmer, Cindy Nicholas, barely made it ashore at Dover at the end of the exhausting swim, but a spokesman from the Channel Swimming Association announced that she was in very good shape.

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Intensive courses are always the most exhausting.

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Tom found the exercise exhausting.

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The trip was exhausting.

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